Comments on: How important is knowing how to program for TCS? http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/how-important-is-knowing-how-to-program-for-tcs/ The Theoretical Computer Science Stack Exchange Blog Fri, 18 Mar 2016 21:21:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Raphael http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/2011/12/how-important-is-knowing-how-to-program-for-tcs/#comment-274 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 11:35:46 +0000 http://cstheory.blogoverflow.com/?p=994#comment-274 (-) for imperative programming: it gets messy very quickly because of little support for abstraction.

I like to mix in OO concepts when dealing with datastructures to keep namespaces clean; s = new Stack; s.push(k); m = s.pop is immediately clear.

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